The Bowl of Saki Commentary
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The worlds are held together by the heat of the sun; each of us are atoms held in position by that eternal Sun we call God. Within us is the same central power we call the light, or the love of God; by it we hold together the human beings within our sphere, or lacking it, we let them fall.
Commentary from Hazrat Murshid SAM (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti, Samuel L. Lewis):
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Owing to the nature of the human mind, every attribute is given a different name; the result is that although an essence may have many attributes, the mind segregates them. Thus one of the qualities of love itself is warmth, fire, heat. They are not separate. In the physical world the cold metals are brittle; although their particles are closer together, the force that welded them is gone. When we wish to mix metals we heat them; when we bake cakes we unify the materials through heat. It is heat and love which tend always toward unity.
What is called gravitation, cohesion, and adhesion is nothing but aspects of the Universal Living Love-Light. In the three worlds, there is a focus of power which can be called the sun, in which and through which this universal power operates. If there were not this coordinated power there could be and would be nothing but chaos—no law, no rhythm, no beauty.
The cells of the body are held together by this same law, and by it, and according to it, human beings form societies. This teaching has been excellently worked in principle by Moses, more implicitly by Plato, and quite explicitly by Swedenborg. According to their own evolution each of these men interpreted it more or less. It is love-nature which holds people together; it supplies the magnetic power which draws the infant to the breast of its mother, the élan which attracts the sexes, and all motive and feeling leading toward unity, union, or harmony of every kind.
The very cells of our body no longer coalesce when we break the law. Neither do they hold together when, mastering the law, one learns how to dissolve this physical body. In that case there is a supreme concentration on the love of God and on service toward God which enables the soul to become free from the sphere of great limitation and rise to function in a sphere of much greater freedom.
The law of friendship, the law of love, the law of harmony is all one. Through the ego we lose this universal power, through willingness to surrender we gain it all.